If We Did Not Have The Top Two Primary …
If we did not have the top two Open Primary Election on June 5 … Brad Sherman would be returning to Washington, D.C. as David the Giant Slayer. Pete Stark would have been guaranteed at least two more years in Congress. Former GOP Assembly Member Rico Oller would be thanking his tea party supporters for […]
California Budget Making – Back to the Good Old Days
The good old days of secret budgeting are back and the primary victim is a transparent government. There was a time, over forty years ago when the final state budget was written in secret. The final budget deal was hammered out in a secret conference held in the Senate Lounge. The bipartisan group that included […]
Department of Delays: Should Democrats Wait Until Month’s End on Budget?
With only $2 billion in differences between legislative Democrats and Gov. Brown, the budget fight is merely at stage play at this point. It looks like it’ll be over Friday, but should it be? There may be one big practical reason for the Democrats to delay the play’s closing until month’s end. To see whether […]
All Quiet on the Pension Front
As California politicos bask in the post-primary afterglow, countless experts are quick to offer their take on the winners and losers in last week’s primary election. However, one person who stands to be a big winner may not have even appeared on the ballot: Governor Jerry Brown. Just two months ago, an Assembly committee tabled […]